Attention! "Automation" is not the same as "artificial intelligence"

People are really pressing my buttons these days on the subject of robots. Belinda Duperre, who sold jewelry at Sam's Club…earns $2 more per hour at Amazon than at Sam's, in part because she's a lot more productive. At Sam's, she served perhaps one to 20 customers a day. At Amazon, she packs 75 to 120 boxes an hour that are then whisked via high-speed automated conveyor belts to fleets of trucks that fan out across the region. Those jobs, in turn, pay better, because its workers are so much more productive.